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Rubin, Lance. CRYING LAUGHING New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. IL YA ISBN 9780525644675 |
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When Winnie Friedman performed stand-up
at her own bat mitzvah, she crashed and burned,
then decided she was done with comedy … at least in
public. But with a little encouragement
from her best friend Leili, and cute junior Evan, she
takes a chance and joins her high school’s
Improv Troupe. Suddenly her star is on the rise: she’s
exchanging flirty texts with Evan, getting
laughs on the morning announcements, and honing her comedy
chops with the Improv group.
But at home, her tight-knit family is thrown into turmoil
when her dad’s strange clumsiness is
diagnosed as something much more serious: ALS, or Lou
Gehrig’s Disease. When her dad falls
at the supermarket, fellow Improv member Fletcher is clued
into her family secret and friendship
– or even romance? – could bloom where Winnie least
expects it. This book will have you, yes,
crying and laughing as author Lance Rubin finds the comedy
in the cringey-ness of it all! (Pennsylvania
Young Reader’s Choice Award
2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. High school students -- Fiction. Comedians -- Fiction. |
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